Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-01-07

At the opening of the meeting Tuesday
afternoon Chairman Kimhall called on
Lieut. Gov. Fuller for remarks. abiding to
his casting vote in favor of the Board of
Agriculture The Governor responded.
saying he was not farmer though born
and reared on farm in town ON the OPP
poSte side of the river He began by de
failing his experience in setting hedge as
illustrating the subject of the forenoon 5
discussion Part of the hedge was set by
Mr.. Allen, whom he employed, with great
care but the ground. was partly frozen,
and a snow storm was falling before the
job could be completed The half that were
set in the snow storm and manfred in the
snow storm all lived and thrived. while
those set at the proper time and equally
well MANFRED, partly died On another
piece Of ground where he had spread ma
nure in the spring in a snow storm and fin
ished up later in fair weather, the part
where the manure was spread in the snow
storm yielded p or 30 per cent more than
that spread in fair weather
He spoke Of the farming which he had
seen in Italy where every inch of land was
valued and made to yield the utmost there
every dropping of the cattle is saved with a
care that is never seen here. The use of
tanks to catch DRAWINGS and receive fertil-
izers is there universal. He attended the
meeting of the great forestry association of
Edinburgh. Ten dollars an acre net annual
profit was there reported from large tract
of waste land planted to forest. Where was
the large tract of land in Windham county
that yielded as much profit He did not
come to this meeting to exhibit himself aS
the savior of the Board Of Agriculture He
had very decided opinions about it. and had
voted accordingly, when it had fallen 10 his
lot to decide whether it should live. He
would have more than 5000 per year ap-
propriated for the benefit of agriculture
$lO,OO0 was not too much.
He spoke at considerable length of the
neglect of farmers to conduct their business
in systematic manner, and to keep accu-
rate accounts. As manufacturer he knew
the value of this his accounts were carried
to a decimal of five points. He could tell
exactly what an organ cost, and, when it
was sold, what were the profits Upon the
high priced lands of Europe the non nc
counting methods of our farmers would not
answer at all In Queenstown $500 to 5000
rent per acre is paid for land every inch
of ground is measured with extreme accu-
racy and every process in its cultivation
conducted with the greatest nicely
Roln q. Smith of Pittsford, member
of the Board, was the next speaker. His
topic was The Dairy and Dairy Stock If
In the dairy, he said it was not enough "a
be simply neat all the surroundings must
be right. and free from an ything that could
/ contaminate the milk or batter. There
were different methods Of making butter.
/ Good butter could be made by mere than
one of these. The first premium had been
/ taken of late by butter made in the d.I
4 fashioned tin pans, but they cannot now be
used because we have other good methods
/ that save much of the labor of the old way
He uses the revolving churn would still
cream twice "a day cream should not b'
kept long before churning. The larger TIN
butter globules the higher should be tn
temperature for churning, He keeps tn
Jersey COWS and churns his cream at a high
er temperature than that usually recon
mended, which is about go churns his "A
about GO moving the churn with slow
regular motion is careful not to have tn
water. with which the butter is washed
cold enough to chill it washes when tn
globules are about the size of IA hickory nut
The butternilk will be more thoroughly re
moved if the butter is washed before break
ing the globules Some of our best dairy
men make over 300 lbs. of butter per cow
Every one who keeps u dairy should aver
age at least $50 lbs to a COW. There ar
26 diaries in the state that can show an av
erage of over 300 pounds, About $4,000
600 pounds of butter are made in this state
The average, including the butter equivo
lent of the cheese, is about ll9 pounds
butter per COW.
The state has made some progress latel
in breeding fast horses, but not so much /
dairying. Mr. Smith makes a specially
raising heifers for cows He keeps abou
20 cows and has an equal number of heifer'
He said calf that is to make COW shout
have a special training for that purpose
and it was quite problem how to fee
calves. and how to treat them so as to d.
yelop their best points. Jersey calves n
quired especially kind and gentle treatmen
The Jerseys were not vicious, but timid, e'
silly frightened, and remembered frigl
like runaway horse. Calves kept up an